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purposes to travel in the district this season, in the course of which it was suggesteil 

 that the Directors should increase the amount ; and a committee, consisting of Colonel 

 Williamson of Lawers ; Mr Gardiner, Chapel Bank ; Mr Chalmers, Shielhill ; Mr 

 Crawford, Balgarvie ; ami Mr Bell, Kennacoil, was appointed to correspond through 

 the Secretary with the Directors. Second, that Mr Chalmers, Shielhill, in suggesting 

 that the Society should offer £100 in prizes for the best managed arable farms, stated 

 that he believed the experin)ent could be carried out at an expense of £100 more, and 

 wishi'il that tlie proposal be strongly recommended to the Directors to inaugurate such 

 a scheme in Perthshire. 



In connection with the first subject, the Board had before them a letter from Colonel 

 Williamson in reference to the amount of the premium to be offered for an agricultural 

 stallion, wlien the Board agreed to fix tlie amount at £100. In regard to the sugges- 

 tion by Mr Chalmers, Shielhill, the Board did not see their way to entertain the 

 proposal of offering prizes for best managed farms, the subject having been carefully 

 considered last year, and deemed inexpedient. 



Proposed Show at Kelso, 1880.- The Secretary reported having attended a 

 meeting of members at Kelso on 20th December, when the list of classes for the 

 Show to be held there in 1880 was approved of, subject to the following suggestions for 

 the consideration of the Board :— 1st, That a family prize for shorthorns should be 

 given at each Annual Show, the breed being generally diffused ; and that prizes of 

 a similar nature be given for the special lireeds of different localities— for example, 

 Galloways at Dumfries, Higliland at Inverness, &c. '2d, That there should be a special 

 prize for a stallion for agricultural purposes, to travel the district in 1880. 3d, That 

 the family prize for Border Leicesters should include one aged tup, two ewes. t\vo 

 gimmers, two ewe lambs, and two shearling tups— the ewes to have lambs in 

 season 1880, and all bred by exhibitor except aged tup. 4th, That there should be 

 sections for half-bred ewes, "half- bred gimmers, and half-bred tups— the latter a cross 

 between a Cheviot ewe and a Leicester tup. 



The Board adopted the second and third suggestions ; remitted the first to the 

 Geneial Show Committee to decide about family prizes for shorthorns ; and rejected 

 the fourth. 



Lectuues on Chemistry as applied to Agriculture.— The Secretary reported 

 that Dr Aitken, the cliemist to the Society, had amanged to give a series of lectures, 

 free, on chemistry as applied to agriculture, in the Society's hall. No. 3 George IV. 

 Bridge— the first lecture to take place on Wednesday the 22d current, at one o'clock. 

 All nieml).n-s of the Society invited to be present. 



Presentation of Books. — Letters were submitted from Mr Thomas Dykes, secretary 

 of the Clydesdale Horse Society, sending, by directions of the Earl of Dunmore, a copy 

 of the retrospective volume of the Clydesdale Stud-Book, presented by his Lordship 

 to the members of the above society ; and from Mr John Scott, 28 Gloucester Street, 

 Regent's Park, London, sending a" copy of his book— "The Farm Valuer"— for the 

 Society's library. 



The Secretary stated that he had already thanked the donors in the name of the 

 Society. 



" Scottish Celtic Review." — The Board agreed to subscribe 'for a copy of this 

 work —a new quarterly publication, specially devoted to sulyects connected with the 

 language, literature, and antiquities of the Scottish Highlands, by the Rev. Ale.xandei- 

 Cameron, Brodick. 



MEETING OF DIRECTORS, 15th JANUARY 1879. 



Present— The Marquis of Lothian, K.T. ; Lord Polwarth ; Sir G. Graham Mont- 

 gomery of Stanhope, Bart., M.P. ; Sir John Marjoribanks of Lees, Bart. ; Mr Graham 

 Binny, W.S. ; Admiral Maitland Dougall of Scotscraig ; Mr Findlay of Springhill ; 

 Mr Gillon of Wallhouse ; Mr Howatson of Dornel ; Mr Kennedy (of Sundaywell), 

 Brandleys ; Mr Martin, yr. of Auchendennan ; Mr Murray of Dollerie ; Mr Mylne, 

 Niddrie Mains ; Mr Oswald of Dunnikeir ; Mr Ralston, Glamis ; Mr Ritchie of 

 Middleton ; Captain Tod of Howden ; Professor Wilson ; Dr A. P. Aitken. Sir John 

 Marjoribanks, Bart., in the chair. 



Mr F. N. Menzies reported apologies for tlie absence of Mr Maxwell Inglis of 

 Loganbank ; Mr Irvine of Drum ; xMr Kenneth Mackenzie, C.A. ; Mr Campbell Swinton 

 of Kimmerghame ; and Mr Walker of Bowland, C.B. 



The business had reference principally to the subjects to be brought before the 

 General Meeting of this date. 



